Although there are 160,000 troops in Hedong, in fact, there are less than 40,000 elite Shatuo troops, and they are all cavalry, which is Li Keyong's family background.

After all, the Shatuo tribe is not a big clan, there are only tens of thousands of tooth tents under their command, and there have been losses in the battles over the years, and these 40,000 people are still composed of some other nomads, but none of them are elite.

Li Keyong also knew that in this crusade of the imperial court, except for the Yunzhou side, the real enemy was the imperial army.

As for Zhu Wen, Li Congwei, Li Sigong and others, they all came to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Therefore, these 40,000 elite Shatuo cavalry put 30,000 on the side of the imperial army and 10,000 on the north, which shows that Li Keyong attaches great importance to the imperial army.

In fact, don't look at the imperial army, there are more than 100,000, but the cavalry is only more than 40,000 people.

The most are the Left Tiance Army and the Right Shence Army, each of which has tens of thousands of cavalry, and there are actually not many cavalry in the other forbidden armies.

On the opposite side, in addition to Li Ke's 90,000 Hedong troops, Wang Chongying also had 15,000 foot cavalry, which added up to not a lot of troops, only tens of thousands less than the imperial court, and the disadvantage was not obvious.

The disadvantage in the confrontation with the imperial army is not obvious, but in other ways, the disadvantage is great.

In Zhaoyi, there were only 30,000 troops led by Kang Junli and Li Cunxin, but the enemies faced were more than 40,000 Sanzhen coalition troops commanded by Ge Congzhou, 15,000 Chengde troops, 5,000 Wei Bo troops, and Li Cunxiao's elite cavalry.

Not to mention the local rebels in Zhaoyi, the situation is not favorable for Hedong.

Similarly, to the north, the Hedong army remained at a disadvantage.

The Hedong side did not dare to drag it out, and the imperial court did not want to drag it out.

However, the first to do it was not the side of the river, but Zhaoyi, to be precise, Li Cunxiao's side.

You must know that when the imperial court's decree was transmitted to Xingzhou, Li Cunxiao was overjoyed.

The general of the Zuo Shenwei Army, this is a third-grade general, but it is much stronger than the Xingzhou Assassin Shi that Li Ke gave him.

Although Zuo Shenwei's army is only 8,000 people under his command now, in the three states east of Zhaoyi, the strength in his hands is the strongest.

After the imperial court's decree was issued, Li Cunxiao launched an attack on the state and Cizhou without waiting for the German army and Wei Bo's army.

Li Cunxiao fought bravely, and the 8,000 cavalry under his command was also elite.

So within three days, the state was taken by Li Cunxiao, and then when Li Cunxiao led the army to approach Cizhou, Cizhou Assassin Shi led thousands of defenders to open the city and surrender.

In less than ten days, Li Cunxiao connected more than ten cities in two states.

When this news reached the crusading armies, it was naturally a big boost in morale, but after it reached Li Keyong's ears, he was so angry that the helmsman of Hedong, who had been stripped of all his positions, was furious, and he took a sword and cut down several people in a row.

"Rebel, waste! It's all rubbish! ”

Listening to the angry voice, no one dared to go in and disturb it, for fear of harming the pond fish.

As for Li Cunxiao's victory over the state and Cizhou, these generals and ministers also had complicated thoughts, and the former first general in Hedong was forced to the court by Li Keyong.

"Hahaha! Yes, yes, this Li Cunxiao is worthy of being the first fierce general in Hedong, and he has taken down more than ten cities in two states in ten days, which has greatly boosted the morale of our army! ”

Compared with Li Keyong's anger, Li Ye laughed heartily.

"Your Majesty, the state is the credit of Li Cunxiao, but Cizhou took the initiative to open the city and surrender, which was deterred by the prestige of the imperial court and by the prestige of His Majesty." Pei Rong hurriedly said with a smile.

Sycophants!

Although everyone was muttering in their hearts, the actual action was not much better than Pei Rong.

"Your Majesty, Li Cunxiao won the first battle, it can be seen that this time to quell the rebellion, the imperial army is bound to be invincible."

"Congratulations to Your Majesty for receiving such a good general!"

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"Although Li Cunxiao is a good general, he also needs to be polished well before he can be reused." Li Ye smiled, but he was not blinded by the good words of the ministers.

"Your Majesty said yes!"

"Now that Li Cunxiao has begun to act in Zhaoyi, how can the imperial army lag behind? Tell Liu Kui that it's time to do it. ”

。。。。。。

Standing on a mountain on horseback, through the binoculars, Liu Kui had already seen the enemy troops on the opposite side.

The location of the Mengkeng is said to be big or large, but it is quite suitable as a battlefield, at least it is quite suitable for cavalry charges.

The enemy army on the opposite side was obviously divided into three groups, one was 4,000 cavalry led by Wang, and the other was 8,000 cavalry led by Li Chengsi, among which there were 3,000 elite Shatuo cavalry. Because the Hedong cavalry is composed of Shatuo cavalry and Han cavalry, it is also distinct.

And the imperial army opposite them was 10,000 cavalry of Zuo Shence's army, 5,000 cavalry of Zuo Yulin's army and 1,500 cavalry of Chang Xingru.

The other side also has 3,000 elite Shatuo cavalry, so the gap between the two sides is not obvious.

"Who's going to challenge? Now that Li Cunxiao has taken refuge in the imperial court, I want to see what other generals there are in Hedong! ”

Liu Kui's words were very relaxed, and as soon as he finished speaking, the people around him burst into laughter.

It's not that there are no good generals in Hedong, it's just that others are not as good as Li Cunxiao, but there are still good generals, but they may not be as strong as Li Cunxiao's force value.

"General, I am willing to ask for war!"

As soon as Liu Kui's words fell, a burly general with a silver gun rode out.

Seeing the black-faced, broad-mouthed, burly and fierce person in front of him, Liu Kui's eyes lit up and he smiled, "Commander Fu, who is this?" ”

Fu Cunzhen hugged his fists and said, "The general Hui Yu is the general Yang Shihou under the command of the lowly position, and the court that returned to the court with the lowly post last year. ”

"It's really heroic to look at." Liu Kui nodded, "Yang Du, then it's up to you." ”

"Yes!"

Then Yang Shihou rode his horse towards the front of the formation, and when he came to a distance outside the range of the bows and arrows of the Shatuo army, he began to curse.

Although it was a little far away, this voice was really loud, and even Li Chengsi, Wang and the others who were in the formation were a little annoyed and angry when they heard it.

What's even more infuriating is that the other party actually walked in front of the formation, brandishing a spear from time to time and pointing in the direction of Shatuojun, extremely arrogant.

"General, let me teach this arrogant man a lesson." A general next to Li Chengsi asked for battle.

"Do you recognize this man?" Li Chengsi was more cautious and asked the people next to him, "Is he the kind of person who can fight more in the imperial court?" ”

"I haven't seen it!"

Everyone hurriedly shook their heads.

For Yang Shihou, these people naturally haven't seen it.

In history, Yang Shihou was first under the command of Li Hanzhi, and then followed Li Hanzhi to take refuge in Hedong, but he was not famous in Hedong until he reached Zhu Wen's hand, and he shined and became a famous general in Later Liang.

In the years of his existence, most of the battles between Jin and Later Liang were lost, and Li Cunqiao did not even dare to attack Hebei, precisely because of Yang Shihou and the "Silver Spear Effectiveness Army" he created.

You can see it!

Hearing that it was not a military general who was declared outside the imperial court, Li Chengsi was relieved, "Since the other party wants to fight, how can our army not fight?" ”

"Who wants to go and cut off the other party's head for Ben General?"

"I would like to go!"

"The last will go!"

The surrounding generals of the Shatuo Army looked at the burly court generals, and several people stood up! I want to talk about "Rebirth of Tang Zhongxing" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~

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